marno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley) (01/10/85)
Has anyone noticed, within the recent cast shifts of S.E., the disappearance of Joan Halloran from the opening credits? She is still in the show, investigating Jack Morrison's lack of education. It seems to me that she is only a "guest" on the show now. I wonder if this whole episode of Jack's lack of training is another effort to eliminate another character from St. Elsewhere. I've been watching the show for two years and I am really having a hard time believing that the writer's of S.E. would work so hard creating a character of such integrity only to expose him as a quack three years down the road. I would like to get other people's thoughts on this. Also, has anyone noticed how much sicker Dr. Auschlander is each episode? I wonder if he going to be another casualty of NBC's ratings game. If anyone has any information on more cast changes, please let me know so I can be prepared. This show is changing so much that one night I'm going to turn it on and not even recognize it.
hash@whuxl.UUCP (HASHIZUME) (01/11/85)
> > Has anyone noticed, within the recent cast shifts of S.E., the > disappearance of Joan Halloran from the opening credits? ... > If anyone has any information on more cast changes, > please let me know so I can be prepared. This show is changing > so much that one night I'm going to turn it on and not even > recognize it. How about they (the producers, et. al.) offing Wendy, the Asian woman who was bulemic (sp)? And whatever happened to the Indian doctor who saved Mark Craig's feet that one episode when he got caught in a snow storm? Are they getting rid of the minorities here? especially Asians? They replaced these people with that fat intern and Mark Harmon, both male and white, one a comic relief the other the answer to Tom Selleck. It's still a good show but if the producers are going to keep making St. E's into white bread I'll have to step up my VCR and Hill St. watching. --Mark Hashizume -- ..!houxm!whuxl!hash (Mark Hashizume @ AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ)
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/14/85)
If you want to talk about diminished role capacity, how about Kavi Raz, who
plays the Indian anethes.. or, the guy who puts 'em under :-). He used to
be in the credits, and now he has a walk-on, non-speaking role (except for
maybe "His blood pressure's going down...").
As to the point of Jack being a "quack"... that's the point the show is
trying to address, re does a poor medical educational program imply that the
person is a quack?
"I'm not SURE that that makes sense, DM."
"Well, it is a CARTOON, sir..."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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